Bradley HamnerFounder, BlueprintOS · Founder - Above the Business & BlueprintOS

Episode 560 is live!

Name: Episode 560 is live!
Uploaded: 2026-04-27T03:09:02+00:00
Duration: 58 s
Channel: Bradley Hamner
Description: In this episode, the host recounts a recent conversation with a business owner who, despite running a company on track for about $3 million in revenue…

27 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this episode, the host recounts a recent conversation with a business owner who, despite running a company on track for about $3 million in revenue, felt like a failure and was ready to quit and start over. The owner couldn’t see that he was actually winning, a common blind spot among entrepreneurs. The host uses this story to explore a maxim he attributes to Daniel Priestley: as a business grows and adds more people, it becomes increasingly hard. The episode promises to dive into the real‑time challenges of running and scaling a business, highlighting the mindset needed to recognize success and persist through the growing pains of expansion.

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I want to take you into a conversation I was having just in the past week with a particular business owner who's ready to quit. He's ready to burn it all down to the ground. And this business, it's actually got target to make about $3 million in revenue. He thought he was failing. He was ready to truly burn it to the ground, start back over, get back to one person where things were going to be a lot simpler. But here's the deal. He was actually winning. He just couldn't see it. And that conversation, and actually many other conversations that I've had very similar to that one, is what this conversation in this episode is all about. There's a maxim that I think I first heard from Daniel Priestley that business is hard and it gets harder. The further you want to go, the more people you have on your team, the harder business actually gets. You know, people say that it's hard, but very rarely do we talk about what it actually looks like in real time.